, state government and local government. we want to see it in the private sector. >> eliot: while it is nice to see some on the right finally acknowledging the government is capable of creating jobs, the 73% number signifies nothing. yes, the number is accurate and the past five months, 847,000 jobs have been created and 621,000 were government jobs. however, the reason they're only tracking the past five months is because if they started in january, they would see that government jobs are actually down for the year and that it is actually government workers who have been most affected by the recession due to state and local governments being forced to lay off workers in order to balance budgets. here are real numbers. since president obama took office in january of 2009, the number of government jobs has dropped by 678,000. the number of private sector jobs has increased by nearly 1.5 million. i know congressman murphy may not think so but facts matter. >> eliot: we saw it last summer and we're seeing it again. and now the